Srikrishna committee members hurt minority sentiments, lawyer alleges

A local court has directed the police to conduct an inquiry into the alleged remarks made by two members of the Justice Srikrishna Committee that minorities were not interested in the movement for separate Telangana, a lawyer said on Wednesday.

Following a private complaint filed by advocate Mohammed Vali-ur-Rahman,  who is also the general secretary of Telangana People’s Forum, the Second Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court today asked the police to conduct inquiry and file report within a month.

Rahman alleged that the Committee members Abusaleh Shariff and Ravinder Kaur had said in interview to a local news channel that members of the Muslim and Christian community were more interested in their development rather than participating in the movement for separate Telangana.
 

"By doing so the Committee members have hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims, as majority of the members of the community were in fact in favour of statehood for Telangana," Rahman said adding he himself had made a detailed presentation before the Committee earlier.

The Committee, headed by the former Supreme Court judge Justice BN Srikrishna, recently submitted its report to the Centre.